Vendor Analysis
published on Sep 09, 2021
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes ADP's offerings and capabilities in Next Generation HCM Technology
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s HCM technology profile on ADP is a comprehensive assessment of its offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of HCM technology platforms and identifying vendor suitability for RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the HR technology and services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of ADP HCM Technology offering, capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization including the location for key centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
ADP, founded in 1949 and headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey, is a provider of HCM management software and services. ADP's business is organized into the following two business segments:
- Employer Services (~70% of revenues): provides HR Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and technology-enabled HCM solutions; offerings include payroll services, benefits administration, talent management, HR management, time and attendance management, insurance services, retirement services, tax, and compliance services and people analytics and benchmarking to >905k clients worldwide
- PEO Services (~30% of revenues): under ADP, TotalSource provides employment administration outsourcing services for organizations with 1 to 999 employees, including payroll, benefits administration, and compliance services through a co-employment relationship; servicing >14.5k clients and >620k worksite employees in the U.S.
Within Employer Services, ADP's offerings include software and services for:
- Payroll services
- Tax and compliance
- HR administration
- Workforce management (WFM)
- Benefits administration
- Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
- Talent management
- Insurance services
- Retirement services
- Payment and compliance solutions
- Pre-employment.
ADP launched its first SaaS-based product offering in 1998 called EasyPayNet and offers several cloud-based HCM solutions, including:
- Roll Powered by ADP: AI and NLP-enabled, mobile-first HR, payroll, and time and attendance platform for organizations with 1-5 employees
- RUN Powered by ADP: for organizations with <50 employees
- ADP Workforce Now: for mid-market organizations with up to 5k employees in the U.S. and Canada, and offers integration with ADP Global Payroll
- ADP Next-Gen HCM: for U.S. headquartered organizations with >3k employees and outside the U.S. via integration with ADP Global Payroll
- ADP iHCM: for EMEA and APAC-based multinational organizations with <1k employees.
ADP targets its portfolio of HCM technology platforms to employers of all sizes, aiming to support clients with a platform-based offering inclusive of technology and extended managed HR services.